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C. KORMANSHAUS CONTAlNER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 10, 1914.

1,137,268. Patented Apr. 27, 1915.

CARL KORMANSHAUS, or BARMEN, GERMANY,- AssIeNon. TO 'sroxns '& snirrn com- PANY, OF SUMMERDALE, PENNSYLVAN IA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

CONTAINER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented A nea, 1915.

Application filed June 10, 1914. Serial No. 844,306.

To all whom it may concern Be it knownthat I, CARL KORMANSHAUS,

a'subject of the Emperor of Germany, re-

new and useful Improvements in Containers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to containers or boxes, such as are usually formed of boxboard or paste-board, and which are used for selling commodities. Boxes of this kind usually comprise a body or bottom section and a lid section which closes down upon the body section. For the sake of appearance all the exterior portions of these boxes are provided with a covering or facing sheet usually of glazed paper, which gives the box a neat appearance-or finish. Boxes of this kind usually comprise a neck or extension upon'which the lid of the box telescopes, the lower edge of the lid being received upon a shoulder which extends along the vertical walls of the box body. Boxes of this kind are usually covered by hand, as it is diflicult fora machine to apply the facing sheet or box covering to the neck.

One of the objects of this invention is to produce a box of very simple construction,

, the parts of which can be readily covered by machinery, and which-when finished will have the form and appearance of a box of this type made in the usual way.

A further object of the invention is to provide a box of simple construction and having. a hinge lid.

A further object of the invention is to provide a box which is constructed in such away as to, facilitate making variations in .the appearance or decorative effect of the boxes. This feature is of great importance because the sale of the goods depends largely upon the attractive appearance of the box.

In the drawing, which illustrates the preferred form of my invention, Figure 1 is a perspective illustrating a hinged lid box constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross section through a box embodying my invention in a box of removable lid type. Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken through the rear wall of the hinge-lid box and showing a portion of the box lid in a partly open position. Fig. 4 is a plan illustrating a form of blank from which the 'box sections can be readily formed. In constructing my box I preferto form two box shells 10 and 11, the former of which I shall refer to as the bottom shell,-

because it carries the bottom 12 of the box from which its vertical walls 13 project upwardly. The shell 11 constitutes the lid shell and comprises a top wall or lid 14, from. which vertical side walls 15 extend downwardly. These two box sections are preferably formed from a blank of the shape shown m Fig. 4. The blank illustrated,

however, Fig. 4 hasa feature adapting it to form the lid shell of the box. This blank has a substantially rectangular body portion 16, from which extend side flaps l7 and end flaps 18. One of the side flaps, as for instance the. flap 17 a is provided with a longitudinal-score'line 19, 'for a purpose which will appear hereinafter. At the points of connection between the flaps 17 and 18 and the body' portion 16, score lines 20 are formed, which facilitate the folding up of the blank into the box shell form. Having formed two box shells in this way I provide the bottom shell 10 with a covering or facing sheet 21, which covers the outer or lower face of the bottom 12, and extends up the outer side of the side walls 13. The covering then extendsover the upper edge of the shell, and the edge of the covering may be bent around the edge of the box and attached to it by an adhesive in a well known manner. A covering may be applied to a box shell in this way by the usual machinery. If desired the covering may not terminate at the line 22, but it may extend way down into the interior of the box so as to form a lining therefor. In a similar manner I apply a covering 23 to the lid shell 11 of the box, said covering extending completely over the upper face of the lid wall 14 and down the outer sides of the side walls 15, the edge 24 of the covering being turned about the lower edge of the lid shell and attached thereto by an adhesive. coverings are attached throughout their entire area to the box shells.

Having formed the two box shells in the manner described I then place the lid shell over the bottom shell so that the shells telescope together as indicated in Fig. 2, and I then secure the two shells together preferably by an adhesive material placed at 25 between the walls of the shells and extending up as far from the lower edge as desired, say for instance to the line 26. To form this box into a hinge lid box I cut Preferably the box through or divide longitudinally three of the side walls of the lid shell by forming an incision on the line 26, which is in line with the score line 19 in the flap 17 which forms the back wall 15 of the box. With a box formed in this way the lid section 11 may be swung upwardly on the wall 15 as a hinge, that is the score line 19 forms a hinge line for the box. The incision at the line 26 is formed so that all points in the incision are in the same plane and this plane is at an intermediate height on the box and is, of course, parallel with the bottom wall and the lid wall of the box. Instead of making a box of hinged lid type I may cut throughthe outer wall on all four sides to form a box such as illustrated in Fig. 2,.in which the lid is completely severed and may be removed completely from the box. I may make the'box of the type shown in Fig. 3 without a covering of any'kind. In form ing the incision around the wall of the box,

abutting edges are formed on the lid section and on the body section of the ;box which abut together when the box lid is closed and support the lid. In this way, as

' no material is removed from the wall of the box, the box presents its normal finished appearance. Supporting the lid section in this Way at all points around-the wall of the box adapts the box particularly to the formation of such boxes as have no neck to support the lid.

Among the other advantages of forming a covered box according to'my invention is memes fact also that the covering 23 at the rear wall reinforces the hinge point.

It is understood that the box described above is only one of the many forms or embodiments my invention may take, and I do not wish to be limited inthe practice of my invention, nor in my claim, to the particular embodiment set forth.

What I claim is A box consisting of two telescoping shells, one of said shells having a bottom wall and side walls extending upwardly therefrom and havinga cover completely covering the under face of said bottom and the outer faces of said side walls, the other of said telescoping shells consisting of a lid wall and side Walls extending down therefrom and having a cover completely covering the upper face of'said lid wall and the outer side of said side Walls, said shells being attached togetherat their overlapping portions, the outer wall of said overlapping portion having an incision extending longitudinally on three sides only above the attached portion, forming abutting edges between the lid portion and the bottom portion of the box supporting the lid of the box, the fourth undivided wall of said outer shell forming a hinge-Wall on which the lid may be raised, said incision having allpoints thereof in the same plane, said plane being parallel with the said lid wall and bottom wall and being at an intermediate point between the bottom and lid walls.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

Witnesses: I

ALBERT NUFER, HELEN NUFER. 

